LEE RIGBY: A memorial to the murdered soldier will be unveiled in his home town later this month. The 25-year-old from Middleton in Greater Manchester was killed outside London's Woolwich Barracks in May 2013 by two Islamic extremists. Rochdale Council said a bronze drum will now be unveiled alongside a plaque in honour of Fusilier Rigby in Middleton Memorial Gardens on Sunday, March 29. It will also feature a memorial wall where the names of fallen soldiers from the local area will be added.

CHESTER: Police investigating a sexual assault at an address in Chester are appealing for witnesses who may have seen a woman in a distressed state in Tarvin Road in Chester. Police are appealing for anyone who saw a distressed woman in her twenties flagging cars down in the area of Tarvin Road, Boughton shortly before 3am on February 14. A 31-year-old man from Chester has been arrested as part of the investigation and has been bailed. Anyone with information should contact DC Kev Lloyd on 101 quoting incident number 97 of 14 February 2015.

SMACKING: A vote on a bill that would see a ban on smacking children has been defeated in the Senedd chamber today by 36 votes to 16. Despite the measure being brought forward by Labour AM Julie Morgan, her party opposed it.

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Liverpool-born Mark joined the Daily Post in January 2014 after seven years as editor of its Merseyside sister title the Liverpool Post. He started out as a weekly news reporter on Wirral Newspapers, and spent seven years at the Daily Post and Liverpool Echo. He was The Press Association's regional correspondent for North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire from 1983 to 1997, before returning to the ECHO as deputy news editor. He has won a number of journalism awards, including the UK Press Gazzette Regional Reporter of the Year award, and in 1993 wrote a book on the James Bulger murder.